The staffing of qualified social workers (QSW) was associated with a significant reduction in the use of restraints in nursing homes, particularly in facilities serving residents with cognitive ...

Reduction in the use of physical restraints was seen after implementation of an evidence-based intervention program. Between December 2024 and January 2025 no physical restraint episodes occurred in ...

The appropriate use of patient restraints in health care settings can keep both patients and hospital staff safe from injury, but they are often overused and abused. It’s important to know what the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Care team “huddles” led to a reduction in physical restraint events at a children’s hospital. Restraint events ...

DALLASTOWN — In the three years before his death in 2021, Harold Garretson fell more than 30 times in various central Pennsylvania care facilities. Angela Perkinson believes many of her father's ...

Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) has published its findings after a Mental Health Services Safe Delivery of Care ...

Healthcare Improvement Scotland inspected the unit at University Hospital Wishaw last year.

It was the summer of 2013, and I had just arrived in Haiti as part of a global mental health fellowship—an early-career psychiatrist fresh out of training, there to support community-based mental ...